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Millions of sandstone quarry workers in India breathe toxic dust that causes a terminal lung disease called silicosis. To treat the illness, workers are forced to take out loans that are impossible to pay back, trapping them into a life of debt bondage and leaving behind an entire village of widows who continue to work there.A 2005 ILO working paper suggested as many as 95 per cent of the labourers in Rajasthan’s mines were members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.[[10]](file://ad.monash.edu/home/User059/smarsh/Documents/Dropbox/Non-Judicial%20Transnational%20Redress%20Mechanisms/Planning%20Project%20Outputs%20with%20May/Rajasthan%20mining/Case%20Study%20of%20Rajasthan%20Quarry%20Mine%2018%20October%202016.docx#_ftn10) In India generally, scheduled caste members (the lowest castes, including dalits, comprising 29 per cent of India’s population) are twice as likely to be a casual labourer, and living below the poverty line.